This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2019-11-04 08:42
Editor's note: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.
An item in China Daily from Nov 4, 1985, showed the launch of Beijing's first citywide radio-paging service at the Long Distance Telephone Center on West Chang'an Avenue.
When pagers were introduced in China in the early 1980s, the small devices were considered a status symbols by many. But that waned in a few years as mobile telecommunications technology continued to evolve.
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